any of several acute infectious diseases caused by ticks, mites, or body lice infected with rickettsiae. The main types include typhus, spotted fever, Q fever, trench fever, and tsutsugamushi disease
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At least 159 (15.2%) of the patients had evidence of a concurrent rickettsial infection.
Tshokey Tshokey, John Stenos, David N. Durrheim, Keith Eastwood, Chelsea Nguyen, GemmaVincent, Stephen R. Graves 2018, 'Rickettsial Infections and Q Fever Amongst Febrile Patients in Bhutan', Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseasehttp://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/3/1/12. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Patients with rickettsial infection usually present with a febrile illness, headache, arthromyalgia and various biochemical abnormalities.
Humaira Shafi, Louie Galang Hipolito 2019, 'Murine typhus presenting with status epilepticus', International Journal of Infectious Diseaseshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219301821. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)